Some Kind Of Courage By Dan Gemeinhart

Courage isn’t always bravery. Sometimes courage goes unseen. To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, displays different types of courage. It is written from a point of view of a child whose name is Scout growing up in a Southern town with her brother Jem. Their father, Atticus Finch, is defending an African American man named Tom Robinson who is accused of raping Mayella Ewell. The Finches mysterious neighbor in Maycomb County, Arthur Radley, whom the children have never seen until Halloween night, adds to the rising tensions in the town. The book teaches many lessons and sheds light on some of the problems we still have today. One of the lessons it teaches is courage. Courage is standing up for what is right, just like Atticus,

The Newbery Honor award is given to the author with the biggest contribution to American literature for children. This book was chosen as the 2015 winner along with “The Crossover” by Kwame Alexander. The National Book Award is chosen by a board of judges, this particular book beat over 294 other titles. Both of these awards lets me assume that it is going to be a very quality book, and there is a high possibility that most people will like it.

In the novel Guns Germs and Steel, an American biologist named Jared Diamond is attempting to answer a question from a New Guinean politician named Yali, in July 1972. Yali asked him: (1)“Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people hat little cargo of our own?” For over thirty years, Diamond was investigating our inferred history for clues, to answer Yali’s question. He published a scientific opinion that explains how geography is to blame for the dispersal of power, as few societies and civilizations inhabiting in the Middle East had access to resources, such as the seeds of highly nutritious crops alike wheat and barley, and useful livestock such as cow and sheep, which others

Theme of the story: The conditions of a character's life has a direct influence on how they act in the novel.

Terrorists attacked the United States on September 11, 2001. More specifically, they attacked four buildings on the east coast resulting in nearly 3000 deaths. Following this event, numerous stories of survival and hope came in. It was during this time Adam Mayblum sent out an email to friends and family telling his story of how he survived, and it was later published as an essay. He stated in “The Price We Pay,” “…they should know that they [the terrorists] failed in terrorizing us” (193). Did the terrorists fail though? Are we afraid?

As our country evolves with different cultures from around the world, people are unaware of the fine-line between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation. So, what is cultural appropriation? Cultural appropriation is when members of a dominate culture, mainly white, borrow from the cultures of minority groups without their input. While there are many people who feel disrespected by others using their culture, there are still people who appreciate and value ones culture.

Racial and gender stereotypes are vague assumptions that are generally negative in the novel, Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins. They are false beliefs abstracted by judgmental people based on a person’s gender or ethnicity. Each person has their respective thoughts, ambitions and passions despite their gender or race. These stereotypes are ignorant and do not define every single person. Most people realize that stereotypes are inaccurate, however they continue to make presumptions based on ethnicity or gender. The author of Forbidden, challenges racial and gender stereotypes by explaining how they are only crude generalizations which cause disruptions in society because of people’s belief that as long as they exist that they must follow them.

What is courage? One of the best-selling novels "To Kill a Mockingbird,” was written by Harper Lee. It is a classic story that occurs in Maycomb, Alabama, with the characters Scout Finch, the main protagonist, and her older brother, Jem. They spend much of their time with Dill and spying on their mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, the widowed father, and lawyer, defend a black man named Tom Robinson, who has been charged with rape, the trial, and further incidents expose the children to racism and prejudice.

“I have been in a place for six incredible years, where winning meant a crust of bread and to live another day. Since the blessed day of my liberation I have asked the question, why am I here?” (Gerda Weissmann Klein). Life has never been easy, especially for Gerda Weissmann, former victim of the cruelty and terror beyond the barbed wire fences of the camps. Always shifting from camp to camp, Gerda Weissmann was a young Jewish lady who was forced to go through a heartbreaking and horrific experience at the concentration camps. The novel, All But My Life, by Gerda Weissmann Klein, is an autobiography that narrates her life in the German labor camps. The years she spent in the hands of the cruelty of the Nazis, did not enfeeble her, instead

Courage is the act of doing something that frightens you. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, many signs of courage is shown. The novel takes place in the 1930’s during The Great Depression. They are from the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. During the novel, there is a trial between Tom Robinson and Mayella Ewell. Tom Robinson was accused of raping Mayella, a white women. Scout and Jem, Atticus’ children see how their father is treated during this case and learn more about society. The children resemble innocence, and atticus resembles courage.

Michael Berenbaum is the author and editor of eighteen books, including After Tragedy and Triumph, a study of the state of American Jewry in the early 1990s, as well as The World Must Know, Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp. He co-edited After The Passion is Gone: American Religious Consequences with Shawn Landres (2004),[2][3][4] which examines the social impact of the film The Passion of Christ on religious groups. Berenbaum and Landres took a public role in shaping the interreligious response to the film.[5][6][7][8]

Stephen Crane was born on November 1st, 1871 in Newark, New Jersey and was the fourteenth child of a famous writer/ suffragist Mary Helen Peck Crane (Bio.com). Stephen was raised by his older sister Agnes who pushed him to attend a preparatory school at Claverack College. Later in his life, he would spend two years as a college student, studying at Lafayette College and Syracuse University. In 1895, Stephen published a Red Badge of Courage which showed the emotional experiences of a soldier during the civil war (Bio.com).Critiques were shocked at the amount of detail and realism that Crane added to his work, especially since he had never been in battle before, he referred to battles as “skirmishes on the football field”, (Dooley). Since

believe that in “Angel Levine,” by Bernard Malamud, the author asks directly the reader, right from the very beginning, who is a Jew? Or perhaps what exactly is a Jew? What qualities make of an individual a Jew? Throughout the story the reader is able to answer that question leading to the conclusion that a Jew are those people who suffer without any justification, but who also remain strong, stoic, and with faith in humanity, or to certain God, especially during the most obscure and challenging hardships of life.

After a robotic bell sounds across a high school, hordes of students exit their classrooms and enter the hallway. After a minute, the congested hallway shows a variety of categories of student types. Those quick to get to their next class condense to their lowest form, while socialite trouble-makers shove each other in hopes of a “domino effect” of falling bystanders. Standing next to the two are the elitist seniors who, tired of high school, force through any cluster of students preventing their access. Luckily, these chaotic transition periods only last for a few minutes, but with a longer timeframe, more permanent damage is virtually guaranteed. Although fictional, William Golding predicts this type of situation in Lord of the Flies,

Sacrifice is necessary in getting through life. We sacrifice in order to reach something of a higher value, but in Mother Teresa’s case was reaching God. Living in a world full of low-wage income families, homelessness, and so on, and we pass them by without ever needing/wanting to pay them anything, so at least they could live a better life. Mother Teresa is an example of self-sacrifice for the God. As stated by Father Joseph Langford,M.C. in the Article “Sacrifice” written by Emily Stimpson, “Holiness is living God’s life, and God has told us that he is love — not just any kind of love, how- ever, but a love that is self-emptying and self-gift” (Stimpson). Decisively, this quote points out to what sacrifice is. Passion and love are vital to human beings. She has been stated in Gloria Steinem’s book, “Herstory Women Who changed the World,” she had an huge impact on many people’s lives and “Today, on seven continents and in eighty-seven countries, her mission “to service the poor purely for the love of God” continues” (Ashby and Ohrn 238). Being this, she was an important person in her century and looking back upon it she made a huge impact in variety of people’s lives throughout the years till she died. Mother Teresa 's objective of conveying contentment and gaiety to the impecunious through self sacrifice elevates the components of altruism/selflessness and adoration that are so imperative to the foundation of peace. Vitally, Mother Teresa was